Cartoon Snow single work   poetry   "When the freezer is cluttered"
Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Cartoon Snow
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    y separately published work icon Westerly vol. 60 no. 1 2015 8840174 2015 periodical issue 2015 pg. 43

Works about this Work

Review Short : Aidan Coleman’s Cartoon Snow Alexis Lateef , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 86 2018;

— Review of Cartoon Snow Aidan Coleman , 2015 single work poetry

'South Australian poet Aidan Coleman’s previous book of poetry, Asymmetry, was published in 2012. It charts Coleman’s traumatic experience of a stroke, and the resulting loss of symmetry in his body, life and writing. The book strings together revelations made startling through poetic bluntness, from the initial shock of incapacitation to the excruciation of gradual rehabilitation. However, physical damage was not Coleman’s main worry, but rather loss of language. He conveyed his anxiety in an interview: ‘a poem relies on metaphor … if you don’t get that real high … you’ll never write a poem’. Happily, these fears were alleviated with Asymmetry, which not only teems with astonishing and idiosyncratic figures of speech, but also operates as an entreaty for readers to think about illness anew.' (Introduction)

Review Short : Aidan Coleman’s Cartoon Snow Alexis Lateef , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 86 2018;

— Review of Cartoon Snow Aidan Coleman , 2015 single work poetry

'South Australian poet Aidan Coleman’s previous book of poetry, Asymmetry, was published in 2012. It charts Coleman’s traumatic experience of a stroke, and the resulting loss of symmetry in his body, life and writing. The book strings together revelations made startling through poetic bluntness, from the initial shock of incapacitation to the excruciation of gradual rehabilitation. However, physical damage was not Coleman’s main worry, but rather loss of language. He conveyed his anxiety in an interview: ‘a poem relies on metaphor … if you don’t get that real high … you’ll never write a poem’. Happily, these fears were alleviated with Asymmetry, which not only teems with astonishing and idiosyncratic figures of speech, but also operates as an entreaty for readers to think about illness anew.' (Introduction)

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